• Anti-Human Trafficking

    Develop products and resources to assist agencies in understanding and combating labor trafficking.

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  • Anti-Terrorism

    Develop and deliver training to law enforcement agencies to prevent, disrupt, respond to, analyze, and investigate acts of terrorism.

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  • Community Violence Intervention

    Develop and provide training, technical assistance, and resources to stakeholders, including community leaders, local government, law enforcement, and service providers, on comprehensive community-based strategies to build trust, address violence, and implement evidence-based practices for community violence intervention.  

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  • Corrections

    Develop and deliver training, technical assistance, and resources to improve correctional officer and staff safety, wellness, resilience, and retention.

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  • Criminal Justice Information and Criminal Intelligence Sharing

    Develop policy templates, guidance resources, and other tools to increase information and intelligence development and sharing across the criminal justice community.  

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  • Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Crime Reduction

    Develop and disseminate training, information, knowledge, and outcome‐driven practices to local communities with chronic and emerging gang problems to create comprehensive solutions to prevent gang violence, reduce gang involvement, and suppress gang‐related crime.

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  • Hate Crimes

    Support state, local, and tribal law enforcement, prosecution agencies, and community-based organizations through training, outreach, and education of practitioners and the public in their efforts to prevent, investigate, and prosecute hate crimes and assist victims and communities experiencing hate crimes.

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  • Homeland Security

    Develop training and other resources to assist law enforcement and homeland security agencies in developing and enhancing homeland security efforts and operations, including anti-terrorism efforts.

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  • Law Enforcement Suicide Awareness

    Develop and provide training, technical assistance, and resources to law enforcement agencies, staff, and families to raise awareness, smash the stigma, and reduce and prevent law enforcement suicide.

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  • Missing Persons

    Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of a national missing person alert network set forth by the Ashanti Alert Act. This network seeks to enable states, tribes, and territories to share missing adult alerts across jurisdictions, with the goal of quickly locating and bringing missing individuals home safely. This project also provides TTA to jurisdictions seeking to establish or enhance an existing missing persons program.

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  • Officer Safety And Wellness

    Provide training and resources to law enforcement to prevent injuries to and deaths of law enforcement officers and the people they serve and improve the health and resilience of officers.

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  • Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use

    Support state, local, and tribal responses to illicit substance use and misuse in order to reduce overdose deaths, promote public safety, and support access to treatment and recovery services in the criminal justice system.

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  • School Safety

    Develop and provide cutting edge training and technical assistance, guiding resources and tools, and a centralized clearinghouse to advance evidence-based solutions to support law enforcement and other school safety stakeholders who work with school-aged populations in improving school safety.

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  • Sex Offender Registration

    Assist agencies in the implementation of federal sex offender management guidelines.

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  • Task Force Operations

    Provide training to increase the effectiveness of state, local, and tribal law enforcement in the management of multijurisdictional task force operations.

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  • Victim Services

    Support law enforcement and justice partners in providing justice, healing, offender accountability, and hope for survivors of gender-based violence as part of a coordinated community response (CCR).

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  • Violence Reduction

    Support state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, officers, and prosecutors in the investigation, prosecution, and deterrence of violent crime, especially crime related to gun violence, gangs, and drug trafficking.

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Our Vision

Answering today’s challenges with tomorrow’s solutions

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Our Mission

Creating and delivering dynamic solutions for our criminal justice partners and communities

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More than 42 years of serving federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and justice agencies

Our Values

Integrity, Innovation, Relationships

By the Numbers

On behalf of federal partners, the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) supports the delivery of numerous trainings and technical assistance services to the field. Since 2018, IIR has held over 800 events, reaching more than 67,000 law enforcement, justice, and community partners.

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Our Capabilities



IIR develops and delivers training to support law enforcement and the criminal justice field.

IIR provides support to assist agencies in developing strategies and approaches to meet agency needs.

IIR specializes in law enforcement- and criminal justice-related research and guidance development.

IIR’s approach includes strategic planning, organization, and financial management to ensure success.

IIR develops and delivers training to support law enforcement and the criminal justice field.

IIR provides support to assist agencies in developing strategies and approaches to meet agency needs.

IIR specializes in law enforcement- and criminal justice-related research and guidance development.

IIR’s approach includes strategic planning, organization, and financial management to ensure success.

Training (Classroom and Online)

IIR excels in developing and delivering national criminal justice training and technical assistance programs that use adult-learning methodologies and the neuroscience of behavior change to drive effective learning and retention.

Training (Classroom and Online)

IIR excels in developing and delivering national criminal justice training and technical assistance programs that use adult-learning methodologies and the neuroscience of behavior change to drive effective learning and retention.

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Policy Development and Review

IIR specializes in policy development, review, and guidance on law enforcement- and criminal justice-related issues.

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Program Management

IIR’s agile approach to program management includes strategic planning, organization, financial management, and continuous analysis to ensure the successful administration of the programs IIR supports on behalf of its funding entities/clients.

Program Management

IIR’s agile approach to program management includes strategic planning, organization, financial management, and continuous analysis to ensure the successful administration of the programs IIR supports on behalf of its funding entities/clients.

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Insights

As a part of its administration of grants and cooperative agreements for the federal government, IIR produces a number of resources for the field. These resources include webinars, training, conferences, guidance documents, meetings, and websites. The following resources provide some insight into the mission of IIR to support federal partners in positively impacting the criminal justice profession.

Featured Insight

Promising Practices in Forensic Lab Intelligence

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A tremendous amount of criminal intelligence can be derived from evidence submitted to, and processed by, forensic laboratories (labs). For this intelligence to be useful, both intelligence units and forensic labs must proactively collaborate to establish protocols and processes for sharing intelligence.

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